Permanent Jobs, Disability

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Each year, INRA recruits tenured researchers and engineers and welcomes several hundred foreign researchers and students.

Permanent researchers of all nationalities are recruited through a competitive process to select highly-qualified candidates. They are tenured from the start, and they can express their creativity and reach a level of excellence for the pleasure of discovering and developing effective applications useful to society today. Permanent engineers of all nationalities are selected using the same competitive procedure. They have major technical and managerial responsibilities.

INRA will recruit over 30 research scientists - applications closed

Whatever scientific discipline they have been trained in, researchers depend on laboratory and field activities. Involved in scientific networks, they respond to environmental, economic and social issues. In striving for excellence, they discover and create concrete applications, useful for society. Personal research and collective projects overlap to advance knowledge and to contribute to innovation, whether it means producing sustainably, preserving the environment or improving human nutrition.

Each year, INRA organises open competitions to recruit research scientists (CRCN). The recruitment campaign is generally aimed at young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. Candidates are recruited on the basis of their scientific competence which they will put to the service of INRA's major research axes by responding to a research topic. Candidates must have published articles on the results of their PhD.

Positions are open in a wide range of scientific disciplines such as agronomy and livestock research, reproductive and behavioural biology, molecular biology, ecology, economics, genetics, process engineering, genomics and other -omics, geography and geomatics, informatics and artificial intelligence, instrumentation, robotics and imaging, mathematics, mathematics and informatics for living organisms and the environment, nutrition, medical and veterinary sciences.

Description

Key activities and required skills

Livestock production is faced with the challenge of designing systems using less inputs and with a limited environmental impact. One strategy is to promote the natural processes of pathogen regulation by creating an environment adapted to the ecological and evolutionary functioning of the species. The aim of the position is to study how the use of ecological processes in livestock farming can promote the regulation of infectious diseases and limit the use of inputs, and in particular to identify the major ecological processes available, understand their mechanisms at population level, and identify the avenues that can be implemented.

Training required

PhD or equivalent. Skills in population and quantitative approaches are recommended. Knowledge in animal health, livestock farming systems and ecology would be desirable. Communication skills and work experience in a multidisciplinary context with actors in the field would be a bonus. Candidates should have a good command of English, and long-term international experience would also be desirable. Successful candidates who have not yet acquired this experience abroad will be required to do so after their probationary period (1st year).